I realise I'm likely talking to myself here, but...
Couple nights ago I was looking at a PCB on my Fluke and I was using my usual crappy 9010-like scripts. The usual stuff, just a whole bunch of RAM tests in a row, but automated with their output and progress reported on the programmers station screen.
The order of the tests was:
Vector RAM
Program RAM
Only two areas, but 6 ICs, so 6 tests.
I then thought, why exactly am I running ALL the tests, all the time. Ie, once I've established a faulty program RAM, I have to go through the vector RAM tests to get to the program RAM. It would be much better if I asked "Program / Vector / All ?" first and then branched accordingly.
Which then got me to the next logical step of...
How can I do this on the SoftKeys of the operator pad?
So I sat in bed last night reading the programmers guide and TL/1 reference on my Kindle (what an exciting life I lead!!) and I couldn't find any information on doing this anywhere!
Anyone know if this is even possible? The reference and guide can be pretty vague sometimes when it comes to a lot of things.
What I want is for all the progress and output to be on the main monitor as it is now, but when it comes to prompting the operator I want the message to be on the operators display and the SoftKeys to reflect the choices available.
I'm pretty sure it's possible on the programmers keyboard via 'define menu' and 'readmenu' but that's a second choice at the moment...
Couple nights ago I was looking at a PCB on my Fluke and I was using my usual crappy 9010-like scripts. The usual stuff, just a whole bunch of RAM tests in a row, but automated with their output and progress reported on the programmers station screen.
The order of the tests was:
Vector RAM
Program RAM
Only two areas, but 6 ICs, so 6 tests.
I then thought, why exactly am I running ALL the tests, all the time. Ie, once I've established a faulty program RAM, I have to go through the vector RAM tests to get to the program RAM. It would be much better if I asked "Program / Vector / All ?" first and then branched accordingly.
Which then got me to the next logical step of...
How can I do this on the SoftKeys of the operator pad?
So I sat in bed last night reading the programmers guide and TL/1 reference on my Kindle (what an exciting life I lead!!) and I couldn't find any information on doing this anywhere!
Anyone know if this is even possible? The reference and guide can be pretty vague sometimes when it comes to a lot of things.
What I want is for all the progress and output to be on the main monitor as it is now, but when it comes to prompting the operator I want the message to be on the operators display and the SoftKeys to reflect the choices available.
I'm pretty sure it's possible on the programmers keyboard via 'define menu' and 'readmenu' but that's a second choice at the moment...
